Redeeming themselves after last year's fall, Melbourne and Sydney have placed 3rd and 9th respectively in the QS Best Student Cities Ranking. Last year, global higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds placed Melbourne 5th and Sydney 13th. Beating Melbourne were London (for the ...
More »Australian universities make global MBA rankings
Three Australian universities have been placed among the world's best for their MBA courses in the latest rankings by CEO Magazine. The CEO Magazine 2018 Global MBA rankings assess universities based on factors such as quality of faculty, international diversity, ...
More »Warning to Humanity: science paper ranks #6
A paper co-authored by Dr Thomas Newsome at the University of Sydney has gone viral, and is now ranked sixth among the most-read academic publications. Following on from a document released 26 years ago, the World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: ...
More »Australian unis increase share of top 10 places in latest global rankings
Australian universities have increased their share of top-ten places for subject-specific performance according to new university rankings released today. The eighth edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject, published by global higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds, ranks ...
More »China continues ascent of university rankings
Though Singapore remains in the lead, China is clearly the star of this year's Asia University Rankings. The world superpower claims almost one in every five places in the over 359-strong list, published by Times Higher Education. In first place ...
More »Students’ most wanted: uni preferences revealed
Year 12 results are almost out, meaning NSW and ACT school students are about to discover if they've achieved their #goals. One of these may be to get into USYD. Australia's first university scooped 14.84 per cent of overall preferences, per UAC figures released today. UNSW, ...
More »New MBA rankings see Melbourne and UNSW make top 50
A new set of rankings puts the MBAs offered by Melbourne Business School (MBS) and AGSM at UNSW in the global top 50. Global higher education company QS produced its inaugural QS World University Rankings: Global MBA using five factors – ...
More »How Australia fares among the world’s most highly cited researchers
More than 100 Australian academics have made it onto a global list of the most highly cited researchers. Released last week, the 2017 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers Report identifies authors who have consistently won approval from their peers, and ...
More »Most employable grads ranked, again, if that even matters
China may be academically rising, but its the US that produces the most employable university graduates. That is, according to the seventh annual Times Higher Education (THE) Global University Employability Ranking. Caltech was employers' top university pick for the second consecutive year, followed ...
More »Is it time to reassess the importance of the ATAR?
Is it time to reassess how the ATAR is used in tertiary education? The current policy climate in teacher education in Australia has a focus on accountability for outcomes as judged by a decreasing trend of primary and secondary student ...
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